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I don't really think there's any polite way to put this: Your employers are simply assholes.

Don't do that. Do this instead (taken from my ~/.ssh/config):

  # Sample bastion host configuration without ForwardAgent
  # Host bastion
  #       User bastion_user
  #       Hostname 10.11.12.13
  #       IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_bastion
  #
  # Host server
  #       User server_user
  #       Hostname 192.168.0.1
  #       IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_server
  #       ProxyCommand ssh -q -W %h:%p bastion

As someone who has dealt with depression my entire life -- first therapist was at age 12! -- I'd like to share something with you all that one of my therapists shared with me.

The world is a depressing place, if you view it through the lens presented by the news media. Maybe ditch all that noise, and see if you're happier.

I don't like the idea of being uninformed any more than anyone else does. But this truly, truly helped me, and I say it on the off chance that it might help one of you.

For about the last decade or so, I've held on to the idea that there ought to be a maximum age for elected officials. Ideally, in my view, 60.

As I myself have aged, and watched those around me age, I'm really quite struck by just how many people reach 68 or so and spend an inordinate amount of time looking back, fondly, on their prime years. It seems incredibly natural for that sort of nostalgia to arise, as the body decays. I can't help but think it also leads to "back in my day..." style thinking, and the mythical "golden past" to which we need to return.

When you've reached such a mental state, I suspect you're no longer as capable of thinking critically about the future as someone younger, someone who still has a future. You've got no skin in the game anymore, and when that happens you're no longer fit to serve in any decision making capacity. Act as advisor, absolutely. But without skin in the game, you'll do precisely what our gov't has done: mortgage our future for gains today, and completely screw over coming generations.

It's a weak rationale, I admit. Borne of my own biases against the status quo, for sure.

Still I can't help thinking its a good idea. An enforced retirement age for elected officials would be in public interest.

Doing, failing, reflection.

Understand that this is a deeply ingrained cultural problem in the US. One of the founding cultures was the Barbary Slave Trade, which quite literally worked people to death. Responding to the tiniest infraction with the whip comes naturally to some, and that inclination has permeated the whole of US culture at this point. Its sad to witness.

Read http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations for more info.